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Give Thanks This Holiday Season By Supporting Local Food Pantries & Rescue Programs
If you are in the NY, NJ Metro area here are some worthy programs to support:
Action Against Hunger
They conduct the largest food drive in the metropolitan area and have collected food for more than 65 local pantries and assisted more than 40,000 needy clients.
PO Box 75, Hackensack, NJ 07602/973-569-7683/actionagainsthunger.com
Table To Table
This food rescue program collects and prepares perishable food that would have otherwise been wasted and delivers it to organizations including homeless shelters, homes for victims of domestic violence, elder care facilities, drug rehab centers, HIV day centers and pantries serving the working poor.
PO Box 1051, Englewood, NJ 07632/201-444-5500/tabletotable.org
Bergen Food Pantries:
Rutherford Community Pantry, 176 Park Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070,201-460-3000
St. Anne Church Food Pantry, 15-05 St. Anne Street, Fair Lawn, NJ, 201-796-1616
Church of the Ascension, 256 Azalea Dr., New Milford, NJ, 201-836-8961
Holy Rosary Church, 26 Edgewater Place, Edgewater, NJ, 201-945-6329
St. Francis Church Food Pantry, 114 Mt Vernon Street, Ridgefield Park, 201-444-2980
Loaves & Fishes Interfaith, 188 MacArthur Avenue, Garfield, NJ 973-253-8557
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